Take one stencil ....

...two Size 10 tags and some Grunge Paste... Leandra from Paperartsy recently made some more videos demonstrating grunge paste - check them out via her blog here   Some of these techniques I've tried before, but if it's new to you, take some time to watch them.

I started with the tag on the left - painted it with snowcap paint, then a very light brushing of ice blue.

Took the mini Cornflower stencil and stencilled Beach Hut fresco paint, the flowers.  I used the flowers fairly randomly over the tag.

Next, mix some grunge paste on your craft mat and mix in some paint (I used Beach Hut again).  On the tag on the left, I just over-stencilled the largest of the flowers (masking off the others).    On the second tag I used the rest of the tinted paste, as shown.

 Using aquamarine archival ink, I rolled the criss-cross stamp (Tim Holtz's mixed media set) without using a block to get partial stamping, randomly over the tag.  The colour wasn't quite right so I washed over a mix of the ice blue/snowflake to tone it down into the background.

Then took a script stamp (Paperartsy, from ID09EZ) and tumbled glass distress ink, again stamped it without using a block.

I painted a spare piece of kraft card stock with ice blue and snowcap paints, then stamped the Paperartsy Mini 90 in black archival.  Inked the edges with vintage photo distress (which I also used round the tag) and cut it in half as shown, inking the cut edges too.









Finished with some pale bluey-white fibres

 The second tag, I took out my Treasure Gold pots.  (this was the first tag I actually completed of the two) based on Leandra's videos, I brushed all of my colours randomly over the tag. I have, Spanish Topaz, Indigo, Aquamarine and White Fire, plus an un-named one which is a pinky-purple (it was a limited edition one a few of us were lucky enough to 'grab' at Ally Pally)

It would have been MUCH easier with a bigger brush but I didn't have a spare, clean one I could use. Leandra recommends keeping a brush dedicated for Treasure Gold, so I'll be going shopping soon!

Anyhow, covered the whole tag, then sanded back the flowers, to get back to the tinted grunge paste.
To finish the tag, I took a Kraft paper chain (I got these from Ally Pally too, several years ago) one side has aquote on them, the other is a ruler.  I stuck this to the tag using double sided tape, then gave it a light coating of fresco paint (Stone) to knock back some of the kraft colour and stamped one of my Donna Downey stamps on top (see next photo for a better look)

 

It needed something at the bottom, so I rummaged in my stash and found an oval watch face (that I picked up at - you guessed it - Ally Pally - in a pack of the same) and glued it onto a piece of Kraft scrap on which I'd stamped another Donna Downey stamp.  I sponged a little Chocolate Pudding paint round the edge of the watch part to hide the Kraft edges and blend it in.
Tied some fibres to the tag (they were a bit too 'clean' so grunged the creamy colour with some walnut stain distress ink.

So, one stencil, two tags, two very different looks (hope you're still with me!!)